Pseudo Hecataeus, "On the Jews"
Subtitle: Legitimizing the Jewish Diaspora (Hellenistic Culture and Society)
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: May 30, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 287
ISBN-13: 9780520200593
Subjects: Jewish studies; Judaism; World history; Literature - Classics / Criticism; History and criticism; History Of Jews; To 70 A.D; Judaism and literature; Religion; Jews; Jewish - Ancient; Ancient - General; Contra Apionem; Josephus, Flavius; Social Science / Jewish Studies; To 70 A.D.; Greek literature; Greece; Historiography; History; Jewish authors
First sentence: Before turning to examine the treatise On the Jews, it would be of advantage to introduce the man Hecataeus, his life and literary work, the genre he specialized in, and, especially, his Jewish excursus.